Add the Copyright Subscribed Link to your Google account and get instant access to Copyright Clearance Center’s rights licensing from your Google search results. Subscribed Links is Google’s API for enriching search results with custom applications.

We’ve implemented a Subscribed Link that puts access to Copyright Clearance Center’s database of reuse rights into your Google Search results.  This time, we’re going to show how to install and use the Copyright Labs Subscribed Link.  In upcoming posts, we’ll describe some enhancements we’re adding to the service, and also discuss how we implemented this solution.

Adding the Copyright Subscribed Link to your Google Account

Click here to add the Copyright Labs subscribed link for rights to your Google search results:

If you’re not logged into your Google account, Google will ask you to log in.  Otherwise, that’s it!

To use the  Copyright Subscribed Link

Here’s how it works.

First, click on the button above to add the Subscribed Link to your Google account.  [Don’t worry - it’s easy to remove if you don’t need it, and we’ll show you how below.]

1.  Once you’ve added the link to your Google account, type “rights:”, then an ISBN, ISSN, or title, into the Google search box.

(In this example, we used the ISSN “0028-9604” to search for the print edition of Newsweek).

2.  Click Search.  Here’s what the results looks like:

3. Click the “Get reuse rights” link to go to CCC’s website—copyright.com—for the rights to use and share content from that particular publication.

To remove the Copyright Subscribed Link

To remove the Subscribed Link from your profile:

1. Go to your Subscribed Links profile at http://www.google.com/coop/sl:

2.  Click “Unsubscribe” to remove the link.

As of this posting, 6-26-2008, Google isn’t displaying profile images for any subscribed links.  Once Google fixes this problem, we’ll update the image capture to reflect the way the service looks.